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  • I was referring to criminal activities with the shady stuff. Thankfully I haven’t come across cp on telegram, but I know for a fact that there’s drug deals and refund services there. I wouldn’t be surprised if it also helped human trafficking cases.

    I don’t care about people buying drugs or scamming amazon, but at the same time I can’t support telegram helping all these malicious actors (whether its petty crime, cp, neonazis, etc) just because it can also be useful to leftists. Its scale and easy of use has something offputting, at least to me. We should also remember that it’s not some tool that was gifted to the left, it’s just an app made by a capitalist that acquired French citizenship.

    My thoughts are also incomplete because taken to the extreme you just have to ban all encryption, which is something I’m against, so I don’t really know what can really be done.


  • Law enforcement agencies should be arresting the people doing those things

    The problem here is that Durov is not helping them arrest these people. The whole issue started by him not complying with law enforcement requests.

    I understand, and agree, that CP is being used as a boogeyman to manufacture consent for anti-encryption and anti-privacy laws. However, I think it’s also unreasonable to allow a platform at the scope of telegram to get away with no issues because of what essentially boils down to “muh freedoms”.

    I wouldn’t support a total encryption ban, or some similar comically idiotic policy. But the whole thing with telegram also irks me. At least force the people hiding something shady to jump through actual hoops instead of just downloading a glorified server-client app.



  • English is not my native language, but I think there’s a valid distinction between systemic (an institution being racist) and non-systemic racism (an individual or individual entity being racist)

    If this was an American company doing this in another country, wouldn’t we be calling this racist? I understand that there can be no systemic violence against white people in the US, but there can be discrimination (as you call it) against them. Also, like another commenter mentioned, what if other people (e.g black people) were discriminated against with this policy? Would you then call it racist instead of “just” discriminatory?

    It doesn’t seem a meaningful distinction to make in this case, at least to me.



  • Are they stealing tactics from looney tunes?

    Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda tllm by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.